About Ditto:
Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems.
About the Position
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Engineering Manager to lead our platform engineering team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. This role involves overseeing the development of solutions for "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) deployments, building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and developing custom Kubernetes operators to automate and enhance our cloud capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and a proven track record of managing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities- Lead our Platform Engineering Team – Lead and magnify the impact of a distributed team of 6-10 skilled individual contributors. Be responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work.
- Recruit and Grow Talent – Build a strong engineering team through hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development initiatives.
- Build a Great Platform for our products – Ensure our platform supports our customers needs and provides Platform Engineers & SREs with the tools they need to maintain and observe our products.
- Raise the Bar on Technical Excellence – Ensure high test coverage, rigorous engineering, stellar documentation, and a consistently high technical bar.
- Collaborate Across Teams – Collaborate with your team, engineering leadership, and product managers to define Platform roadmaps, prioritize features, and align engineering efforts with business goals.
- Architect, Automate and Optimize – Modern platforms require hard technical tradeoffs, strong focus on automating toil, and strategic investments on where to optimize tooling, processes, our software and its delivery
- Ship It! — Regularly ship patch, minor, and major versions of our platform including new cloud provider support and other customer requested offerings, and invest in automation and tooling to make this a breeze.
- Be a Culture Custodian — Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of trust, communication, and continual improvement.
What you’ll Need
- 2+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance management, and career development.
- 5+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance.
- A willingness to travel, including internationally, up to once a quarter for team get togethers.
- Prior experience with cloud platform development (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong production experience building Kubernetes Operators in either Go or Rust
- Fluency programming in Rust, particularly building async applications focused on the cloud and Kubernetes
- Experience bootstrapping and deploying Kubernetes clusters
- Excellent leadership skills with a focus on team growth, mentorship, and collaboration.
- Experience with large scale CI/CD pipelines, automation, and developer tooling & workflows to automate software releases.
- A strategic, product-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical priorities with business needs.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents, and as an engineering manager video-based company updates and presentations will be the norm.
Nice to Haves
- Experience building multi-tenant, multi-cloud SaaS Platforms
- Prior experience leading a team of software engineers with diverse technical expertise across many platforms.
- Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team.
- Experience building large scale cloud infrastructure.
We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you're covered in the ways that matter most. In the US, that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. In the UK, we offer private healthcare through Vitality, a pension plan, and region-specific coverage. For our team members elsewhere in the world, we work with our global employer platform to offer equitable benefits and coverage.
Regardless of where you live, everyone at Ditto can utilize flexible time off. And while we work remotely, our Atlanta and San Francisco offices are open if you ever want a place to work or meet up with teammates.
Apply AnywayAt Ditto, we believe success isn’t defined by a flawless resume, a set number of years of experience, or checking every box in a job description. What matters most to us are qualities like grit, resilience, and adaptability. If you're excited about our mission but don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. Use your application to tell us how you’ll make an impact here. We’re always looking for exceptional people ready to grow with us.
Equal Opportunity EmployerDitto is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Ditto is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know.
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